From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: "Pfrommer, Julius" <julius.pfrommer@web.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unifying code for drawing on a cairo context
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:35:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o80kxp5e.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8usxp9q.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:33:21 +0800")
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> There will be no benefit to this at all. We only recently introduced
> a second platform where Cairo drawing is used, and aside from GTK (and
> X Windows, where using Cairo for stuff other than fonts was apparently
> implemented so that we could use it for printing in the future, but
> nobody has shown any interest in doing that work), there are no other
> platfoms where Cairo drawing is required or would be beneficial.
Not to mention that Cairo is in effect unmaintained, and using it is
discouraged in new software, so I wouldn't count on it being present
forever, much less design code around the assumption that we will always
keep using Cairo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-29 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-23 9:06 Unifying code for drawing on a cairo context Pfrommer, Julius
2022-04-23 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 11:58 ` Po Lu
2022-04-23 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 8:01 ` Pfrommer, Julius
2022-04-29 8:33 ` Po Lu
2022-04-29 8:35 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-04-29 9:07 ` Pfrommer, Julius
2022-04-29 9:20 ` Po Lu
2022-04-29 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 11:51 ` Po Lu
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